Re: Executing Windows commands from Cygwin with or without cmd: what are the pros and cons?

[Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail dot com>]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Greetings, Kenneth Wolcott!
>
>>   Where can I find information regarding the pros and cons of using or
>> not using the cmd command to execute Windows commands from Cygwin?
>
> If you clarify, what exactly you are trying to achieve, it would be immensely
> easier to answer your question, and the answer will be much more useful.
>
> That aside, I see a very short list of commands that have no equivalents in
> Cygwin environment, and very few of them are actually sensible.
>
> Soo... which of the.. what? two commands? you plan to use?
>
> My list is as follows:
>
> 1. Internal commands affecting the system, but have no counterpart in Cygwin:
> ASSOC
> ERASE
> FTYPE
> VERIFY
> VOL (?)
>
> 2. Internal commands with no meaning outside interpreter, or even restricted
> to use in batch files, which may or may not have equivalents in Cygwin:
> BREAK
> CALL
> CLS
> CMD
> COLOR
> DIR
> ECHO
> ENDLOCAL
> EXIT
> FOR
> GOTO
> HELP
> IF
> PAUSE
> PROMPT
> REM
> SETLOCAL
> SHIFT
> TITLE
> VER
>
> 3. Internal commands, that have appropriate counterparts in Cygwin:
> CD
> CHDIR
> COPY
> DATE
> DEL
> DOSKEY
> MD
> MKDIR
> MOVE
> PATH
> POPD
> PUSHD
> RD
> REN
> RENAME
> REPLACE
> RMDIR
> SET
> START (y/n)
> TIME
> TYPE
>
> External utilities disguised as internal commands, which may or may not have
> counterparts in Cygwin:
> AT
> ATTRIB
> CACLS
> CHCP
> CHKDSK
> CHKNTFS
> COMP
> COMPACT
> CONVERT
> DISKCOMP
> DISKCOPY
> FC
> FIND
> FINDSTR
> FORMAT
> GRAFTABL
> LABEL
> MORE
> PRINT
> RECOVER
> SORT
> SUBST
> TREE
> XCOPY

Hi Audrey;

  I was going to execute a MS-VC++ compiler command, not a DOS/Windows command.

  I want to do as much as I could for capturing the stdout/stderr
output and for capturing the exit status like I would as if I were on
a Linux system, or the best that I can under these circumstances.

Thanks,
Ken

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